H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Ice Quotes, Shadow Quotes

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

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Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

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The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

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Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

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The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

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Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

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My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

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Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

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Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

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If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

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Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

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Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

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In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

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Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

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